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From: Lee Underschultz [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2010 8:57 PM
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Subject: Baby wood thrush or Ovenbird?

Lee Underschultz
Little Hocking, OH
Athens County

While on a Segway Tour out on the trails today I came upon a baby bird
sitting in the middle of the trail. I drove up alongside it and stopped. It
sat there until I stepped off the Segway. It then squawked & fluttered off
into the sparse brush. It was an even wash of medium brown over its head &
body (not as chestnut as a Wood Thrush), had a white eye ring and a heavily
spotted breast. Its tail was just a stub but it was capable of short flight.
I would guess that the bird was about 4 1/2" - 5" long from tip of beak to
tip of tail. It was in a wooded area between a white pine grove and a mixed
deciduous forest patch. It was on a grassy trail close to a creek and with a
canopy of trees overhead.

There were no markings that I could see on its head. We have both Wood
Thrushes and Ovenbirds here. I know we had a Wood Thrush nest about 500'
from where this bird was spotted but up about 60 feet higher elevation wise.


Do any of you have an ideas on what this might have been? I know it was not
a baby Robin.

Lee Underschultz
Firefly Hollow
Little Hocking, OH
www.fhsigns.com
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